auto delete or clean

[TheShawnThomas]

I use my FTP as temporary storage only. Does anyone know of a quick script or something that I can have automatically run, maybe as a scheduled task, that will automatically delete files that were put on the server more than a week ago?

I don't want to delete the whole folder structure because then it would have to be recreated and I want this to be something that I don't have to remember to do.

Any ideas?

[boco]

Moved to Off-Topic as it's not directly support for FileZilla Server.

[hblevins]

I've had the same question, any luck?

[TheShawnThomas]

Since I never got a reply I dusted off my dos commands and wrote a batch file and then just made a scheduled task that runs it every sunday night. I wanted something that would look at age of the files but this works for now.
the lines I used in the batch was:

del /Q /S C:\FTP_Root\clients\*.*
del /Q /S C:\FTP_Root\art\*.*

del will only delete files not folders so it will leave your folder structure intact. if you want to delete folders too use deltree.
/Q tells it to be quiet, i.e. the batch won't ask "are you sure?" before continuing.
/S tells it to delete everything in subfolders in the folder specified.
I used 2 paths so it deletes only files in those folders but nothing directly in the root.
*.* tells it to delete all files in the folders. if you wanted it to delete just word documents then you would instead use *.doc or whatever.
Of course being DOS commands this is for windows systems. If running a script on mac or linux I'm sure there are similar ways to do this with Automator or something.
If your not sure about something ask because a batch file done wrong can be worse than a virus. It's pretty easy to tell it to delete everything on the whole computer

[boco]

Just a note: The *.cmd file described in the previous post has to be run on the server itself, locally.

[Xplasma]

I've had the same question, any luck?

Me too.

[TheShawnThomas]

another solution I found that gives you more options is
http://cyber-d.blogspot.com/2005/10/cyb ... e-101.html
freeware. I don't think it runs as a service, though there are ways to fix that if you needed to.

[nitairoy]

Since I never got a reply I dusted off my dos commands and wrote a batch file and then just made a scheduled task that runs it every sunday night. I wanted something that would look at age of the files but this works for now.
the lines I used in the batch was:

del /Q /S C:\FTP_Root\clients\*.*
del /Q /S C:\FTP_Root\art\*.*

del will only delete files not folders so it will leave your folder structure intact. if you want to delete folders too use deltree.
/Q tells it to be quiet, i.e. the batch won't ask "are you sure?" before continuing.
/S tells it to delete everything in subfolders in the folder specified.
I used 2 paths so it deletes only files in those folders but nothing directly in the root.
*.* tells it to delete all files in the folders. if you wanted it to delete just word documents then you would instead use *.doc or whatever.
Of course being DOS commands this is for windows systems. If running a script on mac or linux I'm sure there are similar ways to do this with Automator or something.
If your not sure about something ask because a batch file done wrong can be worse than a virus. It's pretty easy to tell it to delete everything on the whole computer

Could you please write me how doing it if I want to delete files which are older than 15 days. I only want to delete files inside the folders not the root folder.

[fionka3]

Auto delete? Where is this function?

[boco]

FileZilla products do not support auto delete. This thread discusses an external solution.

[zillawallace]

interesting..I'll have to take a look later